Will Classic e-mail speed be as fast as BIS?

Seriously considering the Classic, but wondering what the e-mail speeds will be, compared to the BIS I get on my 9700. I have a POP3 account, as well as Yahoo e-mail. Currently, with BIS - I receive e-mails before my desktop!

The responses I got were pretty much the same as what you got here. People wrote that it will have the same speed, but you will need an eMail account with a state of the art eMail provider, like Google.

Seriously considering the Classic, but wondering what the e-mail speeds will be, compared to the BIS I get on my 9700. I have a POP3 account, as well as Yahoo e-mail. Currently, with BIS - I receive e-mails before my desktop!

It will be nowhere near as fast as BIS if you're out and about, I ran my 9900 and a Z10 side by side for a while and the Z10 could have 30 minutes delay.

If you find yourself on slow GPRS areas you can forget about email on BB10, it won't work.

I am having a far better experience with e.mail on my Passport that I was having on my 9900 for the last few months before I replaced it.

On my latter days with BIS I was experiencing horrible delays with my BT Yahoo account and Gmail was beginning to go the same way. Messages were being received in small batches anything up to an hour after they had hit my computer. Both were IMAP.

Now on the Passport messages are once again arriving at the same time they hit the computer.

Your POP3 email will not arrive as quickly as it used to when going through BIS. BIS is great in that it maintains a persistent connection to your pop3 email server and was always listening for new mail. As soon as it detected mail, it signaled your device to retrieve it. Without BIS, POP3 is relegated to a "pull" system, where your device will poll the email server at specified intervals (usually 15 minutes - often is able to be set by user). Your Yahoo mail supports IMAP, which means the mail server and your device are in constant sync, so as soon as a new Yahoo email arrives on the server, the IMAP yahoo server can push it to your device. POP3 is an older technology and has few benefits compared to IMAP services. If you rely on POP3 mail and are using BIS, you'll be disappointed with the Classic.

My Q10 gets my iCloud email instantaneously. Sometimes it even beats my iPhone when I'm connected to WiFi for the Q10 and using my iPhone 6 as my primary mobile. i don't see Classic being any different.

Exchange style server will get them same time as PC or a little faster depending if you have attachments / pictures auto download on phone.

Unsure about POP3.

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As explained well above already, POP3 on a BlackBerry Classic will be just the same speed as on Apple iOS, Android and Windows Phone. That is to say it will be a lot slower than on legacy BlackBerry OS smartphones that used BIS to speed the POP3 service up considerably making it a "push" email service rather than a "pull" email service.

If you can, switch your email to a provider that supports ActiveSync connections. POP3 is a very old legacy email protocol that really should be deprecated. In the IT industry itself POP3 pretty much is deprecated already.

As explained well above already, POP3 on a BlackBerry Classic will be just the same speed as on Apple iOS, Android and Windows Phone. That is to say it will be a lot slower than on legacy BlackBerry OS smartphones that used BIS to speed the POP3 service up considerably making it a "push" email service rather than a "pull" email service.

If you can, switch your email to a provider that supports ActiveSync connections. POP3 is a very old legacy email protocol that really should be deprecated. In the IT industry itself POP3 pretty much is deprecated already.

Hey peeps the transition to OS 10 WILL no longer use bis! Regular data plans will apply and the speed is no different and will be based on how fast your data network is.

Along with that your __________@blackberry.com email address also will no longer apply or be supported! Make sure you keep and maintain your BlackBerry world login as that will be your credentials now.

I'm surprised this has not be mentioned for our newbies going to os10!?